54 THE CAT AND THE PIGEON.

herself the defender of the kittens, and on any person
coming nearer than she liked, she would fly out and attack
them with beak and wings, in the hope of driving them
away from her young charges, Often, too, after this, when

 

 

neither the kittens ncr her own brood needed her care, and
| the cat went out about the garden or the fields, the pigeon
might be seen fluttering close by her, for the sake of her

 

society.
Help and protect one another in all right things, as did